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Shew

verb
1.
Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.  Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show.  "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"






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"Shew" Quotes from Famous Books



... end therefore, that no occasion may hereafter be either given, or taken by the misgovernment, or overrashnesse of any in using it to calumniate and traduce the worth, and goodnesse of this fountaine, I will briefly here shew, what course is chiefly to be followed and observed by those who shall stand in need ...
— Spadacrene Anglica - The English Spa Fountain • Edmund Deane

... not alone on youthful prime, Or manhood's active might; Man then is useful to his kind, Supported in his right: But see him on the edge of life, With cares and sorrows worn; Then Age and Want—oh! ill-match'd pair— Shew man ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... republican. In the loyal copies the patrons of the work are mentioned, but their titles are essentially changed; Serenissimus, Illustrissimus, and Honoratissimus, were epithets that dared not shew themselves under the levelling influence of the great ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... Roger, thou hast sworn fealty and obedience to me—now swear me this to God:—to hold ever, and abide by, thy word: to shew mercy to the distressed and to shield the ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol

... the conversion of the emperor Akbar, through the patriarch Hiravijaya (Ind. Antiq. Vol. XI, p. 256), and of the spread of the Digambara sect in an island Jainabhadri, in the Indian Ocean (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII, p. 28) and in Arabia, shew that the Jainas are familiar with the idea of the conversion of non-Indians. Hiuen Tsiang's note on the appearance of the Nirgrantha or Digambara in Kiapishi (Beal, Si-yu-ki, Vol. I, p. 55), points apparently to the fact that they had, in the North West at least, spread their missionary activity ...
— On the Indian Sect of the Jainas • Johann George Buehler


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